Rating: 6.0/10
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Language: Mandarin | Min Nan
Release Date: 27 November 2015 (Taiwan)
Language: Mandarin | Min Nan
Release Date: 27 November 2015 (Taiwan)
Director: Wei-hao Cheng
Writer: Shi-Geng Jian
Stars: Wei Ning Hsu, River Huang, Yin-Shang Liu
Writer: Shi-Geng Jian
Stars: Wei Ning Hsu, River Huang, Yin-Shang Liu
Duration: 92 Minutes
Size: 214MB
Size: 214MB
Storyline
Based on true events and long-circulating urban legend in Taiwan. Wei is nowhere to be found one day before his grandma returns from her own strange missing incident. Wei’s girlfriend desperately searches for his whereabouts and finds that it is the horrifying mystery of the little girl in red that has followed and haunted them all along.
Reviews: ‘The Tag-Along’ takes a well-known urban legend in Taiwan and turns it into a bone-chilling mystery built around themes of loss, regret and familial love. Depending on your knowledge of Taiwanese folklore, you may or may not have heard of the ‘little girl in red’, who was infamously captured by a group of climbers on home video making their way along a mountain trail. That video was broadcast on television way back in 1988, and since then, others have reported similar sightings of a little girl in a red dress just before they had met with some form of calamity. Legend has it that the girl is a mountain demon known as ‘mo-sien’ (or 魔神仔 in Chinese), which preys on fear and guilt and is particularly drawn to children and the elderly.
So it is that the first to disappear in the film is an elderly woman who happens to be good friends with our lead male protagonist’s grandma (Liu Yin–shang), a curmudgeonly lady confronted with the same fate one typical morning after making breakfast for her grandson Wei (River Huang). It will be a couple of days before Wei realises that she has gone missing – despite being his caretaker from young, Wei’s busy work schedule as a real estate agent have kept the two apart in recent times, leaving his grandmother in constant lament about how little he sleeps every night and how little time he spends at home with her. Their estrangement is also in part due to Wei’s relationship with his girlfriend Yi-chun (Hsu Wei Ning), who harbours no plans to get married, settle down or have kids even after five years, much to Wei’s grandmother’s dismay.
Reviews: ‘The Tag-Along’ takes a well-known urban legend in Taiwan and turns it into a bone-chilling mystery built around themes of loss, regret and familial love. Depending on your knowledge of Taiwanese folklore, you may or may not have heard of the ‘little girl in red’, who was infamously captured by a group of climbers on home video making their way along a mountain trail. That video was broadcast on television way back in 1988, and since then, others have reported similar sightings of a little girl in a red dress just before they had met with some form of calamity. Legend has it that the girl is a mountain demon known as ‘mo-sien’ (or 魔神仔 in Chinese), which preys on fear and guilt and is particularly drawn to children and the elderly.
So it is that the first to disappear in the film is an elderly woman who happens to be good friends with our lead male protagonist’s grandma (Liu Yin–shang), a curmudgeonly lady confronted with the same fate one typical morning after making breakfast for her grandson Wei (River Huang). It will be a couple of days before Wei realises that she has gone missing – despite being his caretaker from young, Wei’s busy work schedule as a real estate agent have kept the two apart in recent times, leaving his grandmother in constant lament about how little he sleeps every night and how little time he spends at home with her. Their estrangement is also in part due to Wei’s relationship with his girlfriend Yi-chun (Hsu Wei Ning), who harbours no plans to get married, settle down or have kids even after five years, much to Wei’s grandmother’s dismay.
No comments:
Post a Comment